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End of a draft petition by Ammon protesting humiliation by an official TM 23645Alexandria bzw. Panopolis348 CE

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Closing part of a draft petition by Ammon, a lawyer (scholastikos) of Panopolis, complaining that an official had him detained and publicly humiliated, led about in his sacred garb though innocent. He states that he has appealed and calls on the addressee, apparently the katholikos in Alexandria, as his tribunal; drafted in December 348.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] and he orders me to be placed a second time (?) under the officium, a man liable to no charge or reproach, ⟦accusing⟧ who had come to him with a fruitless request concerning fees (?), […] and a spectacle in no way bearable to the one suffering it nor tolerable to those watching it, to bear the sight meekly in silence, by a certain official who was present, a man [devoted] to philosophy and letters […] and practising a quiet life, [being] insulted […] and being led about hither and thither in my holy garb and […] having done no wrong; the bystanders, seeing […] not enduring ⟦in silence⟧ to bear such a sight calmly, […] Therefore, having been thus insulted, I immediately made use of an appeal and I invoke your most august self, my lord, as tribunal, before which I ask […] […] examine (?) […] […] […]

The 'holy garb' (hagion schema) likely refers to Ammon's dress as a pagan priest. Written in Alexandria according to one description, but the papyrus belongs to Ammon's archive found at Panopolis.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Das Ende einer Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Draft of a petition to the katholikos [348]

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Duk.inv. 217 R · 348 CE
Draft of a petition to the katholikos [348]

Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name: Ahkmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Draft written by Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, to Flavius Sisinnius, katholikos, a high official in Alexandria. Drawn up between Dec. 9 and Dec. 13, 348 in Alexandria. Ammon clai…

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Draft of a petition [348?]

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Duk.inv. 217 V · 348 CE
Draft of a petition [348?]

Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer. Ammon protests against abuse by an official, possibly Eugeneios, an imperial secretary. Papyrus belongs to the archive of Ammon. Recto has…

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p.ammon.2.47

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. - 13. Dez. 348 · Alexandria bzw. Panopolis

[r] καὶ ἐμὲ δεύτερον ὑπὸ τὴν τάξιν προστάττει γίγνεσθαι, ἄνδρα μηδεμιᾶς αἰτίας μηδὲ μέμψεως ὄντα ὑπεύθυνον, διὰ μισθῶν δὲ αἴτησιν ἄπρακτόν με αὐτῶι προσεληλυθότα, …[…]…ε καὶ θέαμα ἰδεῖν οὐδαμῶς οὔτε τῶι πάσχοντι φορητόν, οὔτε τοῖς θεωμένοις ἀνεκτόν, πράως ἐνεγκεῖν ἐν σιωπῆι τὴν θ…